An Apology for the life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call'd the King of the beggars
Subtitle: being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gipsies, to the present time : wherein the motives of his conduct will be explain'd, and the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in thro' Great Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe be related : with his travels twice thro' great part of America : a particular account of the origin, government, language, laws, and customs of the gipsies, their method of electing their king, &c. : and a parallel drawn after the manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones
Contributors: Price, Thomas; Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778; Goadby, Robert, Mrs
Edition: The seventh edition
Publisher: Printed for R. Goadby, and W. Owen bookseller, at Temple-Bar
Published: 1763
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Carew, Bampfylde Moore, -- 1693-1770?; Fielding, Henry, -- 1707-1754.; Romanies; Cant
Notes: One of the numerous versions with varying titles, the authorship of which has been ascribed variously to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby, and Carew himself

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